Comparative ecophysiology of seed germination in two pairs of closely related pines of mediterranean and himalayan origins

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 963-969

  Saeed, Muhammad ^a   Thanos, Costas A ^b   Raza, Agha Muhammad ^a   Mushtaq, Muhammad ^a   Luqman, Muhammad ^a  

^a BALOCHISTAN UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dormancy; Ecophysiology; Germination; Light; Phytochrome; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973643666     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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